UROP Openings

Virtual and Other Realities

Term:

Summer

Department:

21A: Anthropology

Faculty Supervisor:

Manduhai Buyandelger

Faculty email:

manduhai@mit.edu

Apply by:

June 1st, 2020

Contact:

manduhai@mit.edu

Project Description

Explore research, technologies, and the arts of the virtual reality (VR, AR, XR and others) from sociological, cultural, and media studies perspective. Trace their long term development and recent adaptation due to COVID-19. Compile a literature review, write short annotations, and create a resource database.